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This is "short and sweet" issue #4 of The Stackless Newsletter.

/r/stackless/. I want to open up shared discussions so I've created a subreddit:

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This is issue #3 of The Stackless Newsletter.

, I wrote, “In a world without packages, there would be no easy way to include other people’s code in our projects.” I explained that Node and NPM are “aftermarket products” added to server-side JavaScript to make it possible to use modules of other people’s code. With build tools like Webpack or Rollup, developers use Node and NPM to create bundled JavaScript files for browser JavaScript.

Hi reader!

This is issue #2 of The Stackless Newsletter.

JavaScript is about to change. On March 2, the newest version of the Chrome web browser ships with import maps, a language feature that seems obscure but is key to buildless JavaScript.

No more Node or NPM for browser JavaScript. To install libraries of third-party code, we use NPM for server-side JavaScript, which is the package manager for Node. To get packages in browser JavaScript, we 1) install Node and NPM, 2) create a package.json file, 3) install packages using npm or Yarn, 4) and use Webpack or Rollup or Parcel to bundle JS for use in the browser. Import maps are about to change that. I'll explain why, but first I want to highlight the importance of packages and look at the problem of package management in the browser.

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Welcome to issue #1 of The Stackless Newsletter. Each week you'll get:

• a conceptual overview
• stackless technical tips

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